They sold at a weighted average yield of 2.74 percent, down from 4.22 percent at the previous sale of the three-year paper last February.

The Serb Republic is awaiting a loan instalment from the IMF, which last September approved a three-year extended loan arrangement for Bosnia worth 553.3 million euros ($595.02 million) to back the Balkan country’s economic reforms.

The IMF has already disbursed 79.2 million euros. But to access the next tranche of 80 million euros, Bosnia must pass a law raising excise taxes, and its other autonomous region, the Bosniak-Croat Federation, must adopt a new banking law.

The IMF disburses the loan payments to Bosnia’s central government in Sarajevo but the principal beneficiaries are the two autonomous regions. ($1 = 0.9299 euros) ($1 = 819 Bosnian marka) (Reporting by Maja Zuvela)